2 minute readIf you want to watch that Al Jazeera documentary about match-fixing (spot fixing, actually) to see for yourself whether the allegations have any merit, here it is (or click here). The film went out in May, but it’s in the news again this week because Glenn Maxwell’s been talking about
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Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
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Essex v West Indies indoctrination of a young mind match report
2 minute readDan writes: My seven year old son looks a demon with the bat in his hands in the back garden, and he actually pays attention when the cricket’s on the TV. He seems to reserve special interest for the Test matches, which is very pleasing. So this summer we signed
Continue readingWe made up a word and Wisden published it
< 1 minute readThe word is ‘schedusfaction’ and it means ‘satisfaction with the scheduling of a cricket tour’. We didn’t realise the world had use for such a word until this summer. England are about to play a Test series against India. You may be aware of this and that might be because
Continue readingVirat Kohli’s ‘I’ve just been bowled by Adil Rashid’ face
< 1 minute readWhen we wrote about what it’s like to be Virat Kohli, we didn’t for one minute think that there would be any overlap with what it’s like to be Mike Gatting. Turns out there is. Virat Kohli and Mike Gatting both do a thing where they make an astonished face
Continue readingPlease can we very quickly talk about that very fine MS Dhoni innings in the last one-dayer?
2 minute readImagine a tiger hunting a deer. He’s squatting down in the undergrowth, taut and primed to strike. The deer is ambling around just in front of him, oblivious. When the deer gets close enough, the tiger will leap out and bite him in the neck. The deer mills around. He
Continue readingA cricket book in the Vintage Mobile Cinema
< 1 minute readGed writes: I flew up to Edinburgh for a bit of Fringe, taking with me only The Kings Of Summer by Duncan Hamilton and a collapsible brolly. Amongst other things, we visited the Vintage Mobile Cinema, which was interesting and fun. I neglected to actually photograph the book in the
Continue readingThere are many different ways to get out to Kuldeep Yadav
2 minute readHere’s Jason Roy getting it not-right again Kuldeep Yadav. Here’s Roy’s follow-through. You may notice that he’s hitting the ball in the air while simultaneously falling on his arse. It seems safe to assume this probably wasn’t the outcome he envisaged. Now here’s Joe Root getting it very not-right. This
Continue readingLeo being conspicuously indifferent to tickets to Ireland’s first men’s Test match
< 1 minute readChuck says that Leo’s indifferent to everything except food. The tickets were used for this match. If you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk.
Continue readingIndia have already beaten England in the T20s – could they beat them in all three formats?
3 minute readAbout a month ago we had this big article planned about how India could easily end up winning the Test series against England. Then… well, who knows what happened? It could have been anything. None of us will ever know. All we can say for certain is that the article
Continue readingImagine being bowled out in less than 18.4 overs in your first innings
2 minute readBangladesh were bowled out in 18.4 overs yesterday. That’s pretty bad, but apparently it wasn’t actually the shortest first innings in Test history. Imagine how bad at cricket you’d have to be to be bowled out inside 18.4 overs. Imagine how embarrassing that must have been. Hopefully, whoever it was,
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